Combined window-shade and curtain-pole support



(m, Model.) W. H. JOHNSON.

COMBINED WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN POLE SUPPORT. No. 501,425.

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COMBINED WINDOW-SHADE AND CURTAIN-POLE SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,425, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed March 6, 1893. Serial No. 464,862. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Oaddo and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Window- Shade and Curtain-Pole Support; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, 'clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in combined brackets for window curtain poles and shades, and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters and figures throughout the several views.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a window provided with my improved curtain pole and shade roller supports and illustrates the method of using the same. Fig. 2 repre sents a side elevation of one of the combined supports, and illustrates one method of securing the same to the window frame. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a modification of the support shown in Fig. 2 and illustrates another method of securing it to the window frame. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of the sliding or adjustable hook for the curtain pole, and Fig. 5 represents a cross-section of the shank of the hook shown in Fig. 4 along the line o 00 of the said figure.

A represents the curtain pole from which the curtains are suspended in the usual way.

B represents the shade roller, which is journaled in the holes 0' and c of the bracket.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the bracket 0 is provided with a horizontal, or approximately horizontal leg, 1 and a sloping leg 2, which legs are secured to the window frame by screws passing through the flanged portions 0 of the said legs. The lower leg of one bracket is provided with a cylindrical aperture 0' for the shaft of the shade roller; and the corresponding leg of the opposite bracket is provided with a slot 0 adapted to hold the flattened end of the shaft of the shade roller, about which shaft the spring is coiled. These journal bearings of the shade roller shaft are placed in an enlarged portion 0 of the bracket as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

In the bracket shown in Fig. 3 two dependent legs 3 and 4, are connected to the horizontal, or approximately horizontal arm, 1, and the bracket is secured to the window frame by the screw 0', and is steadied by the projecting arms 0 which bear against the window frame when the bracket is screwed down into position. 011 the horizontal portion of either of the said brackets, a sliding or adjustable hook, O is mounted. This hook is provided at its outer end with a curved portion or hook 0 adapted to receive the curtain pole, and has, along the upper portion thereof, a slot 0 through which the clamp screw 0 passes, the said clamp screw engaging in the said bracket andclamping the hollow shank of the hook (3 in any desired position on the said bracket. It will be evident from an inspection of the drawings, that this book may be pushed out or drawn in on the bracket through a distance corresponding to the length of the slot 0 and may be firmly clamped in any desired position by means of the clamp screw 0 By this means, the same brackets may be used with windows having frames projecting inward, to a greater or less degree, and the distance of the curtain pole from the window frame may be varied at will. Moreover the same bracket provides a support for the shade roller and for the curtain pole.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent of the United States, is-- A combined curtain pole and shade roller support, comprising a bracket adapted to be attached to a window frame and consisting of an approximately horizontal cylindrical member and an inclined brace secured to the under surface of the outer end of the said horizontal member, the said brace having a bearing therein for the shade roller in combination with a hook adapted to receive the curtain pole and having a hollow shank, sliding upon the horizontal member of thebraoket, and having a longitudinal slot in its upper and lower sides, and a clamping screw passing through the upper slot in the said Intestimonywhereoflaffix mysignaturein hollow shank and taking into the horizontal presence of two Witnesses.

member of the bracket the said inclined brace passing through the lower slot in the said JOHNSON 5 shank thereby guiding it and preventing its Witnesses:

turning on the horizontal member of the ARTHUR LEE KAHN,

bracket, substantially as described. W. E. MAPLES. 

